The China–United States trade war is an ongoing economic conflict between the world’s two largest national economies, China and the United States. President Donald Trump in 2018 began setting tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the goal of forcing it to make changes to what the U.S. says are “unfair trade practices.”

For several weeks, Trump has repeated that the heavy death toll from infection with COVID -19— more than 300,000 worldwide— could have been prevented if China had acted responsibly when the new coronavirus was first detected in the city of Wuhan, in central China, at the end of last year.

On Thursday, President Trump said that he did not want to speak, at the present moment, with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Instead, he threatened to sever relations with Beijing because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), also known as 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD), and novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) is a viral respiratory disease caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). It was first detected during the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

However, in recent months, tensions have escalated, and Trump has accused Chinese officials of hiding the scale of the epidemic, which emerged in late 2019 in the city of Wuhan. For its part, Beijing denies the accusations, and claims to have transmitted all information in a timely manner to the World Health Organization and other countries, including the United States.

Trump has hinted at a possible retaliation against the Beijing government, accusing it of having omitted important information about the new coronavirus, which could have prevented the pandemic of COVID -19.

Globally, according to a report from AFP, the pandemic of COVID -19 has caused more than 297,000 deaths and infected more than 4.3 million people in 196 countries and territories. More than 1.5 million patients were considered cured. The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, China.

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